For his whole adult life, Dave Bezona worked in Alaska’s oil fields, two weeks on, then two weeks at home.
Oil field work slows every dark Alaska December. In 2005, Bezona spent part of the holiday with his friend Greg Abshire, proprietor of North Pole Coffee Roasting in North Pole, Alaska.
“That’s where I fell in love with it, over a December,” Bezona said. “Fell in love with the whole process” of coffee roasting…